Not cleaning cookies in unexpected place

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New here, hope this hasn't been posted already. :^)

I'm on a system using XP/SP3. I access the internet using a fully updated version of Firefox

(currently version 9.0.1), and CCleaner v3.14.1616 cleans my cookies/history/etc perfectly.

However, another user of this computer uses AOL software to access the internet, and it seems to

use Internet Explorer (not sure of the details here). Anyway, when they log on something creates an

entire duplicate folder structure for cookies/history/etc, and all the files contained there are not

cleaned. The folders created are:

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Local Settings\Temp\Cookies

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Local Settings\Temp\History\History.IE5

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Local Settings\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

Note that the \cookies and other folders are created in the Temp folder! When I delete these

folders, they are re-created the next time the other user logs on.

Can CCleaner be updated to clean these files? Thanks!

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Just out of curiosity, have you looked in those directories to see if there's files there? I'm also running XP/SP3 and have a similar problem (although not with the creatiion of the directories you mentioned) where CCleaner will delete any files in Local Settings\Temp, but won't delete any folders that are there. If those folders contained files, they're gone, but the folders remain.

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As I remember, there are normal-looking Internet Explorer-generated files in those folders that are there both before and after cleaning. For instance, in the Cookies folder in the location in my post above, there are multiple files with names like "CBWTOP9.txt" (I made this up from memory) with file sizes listed as ~1kb, and the ubiquitous "index.dat" file. The History and Temporary Internet Files folders have the file types expected there also.

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Anything in %localappdata%\temp\ will be cleaned by the Temporary Files check box. Make sure to go into your CCleaner settings and let CCleaner clean temp files younger than 24 hours old.

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As I remember, there are normal-looking Internet Explorer-generated files in those folders that are there both before and after cleaning. For instance, in the Cookies folder in the location in my post above, there are multiple files with names like "CBWTOP9.txt" (I made this up from memory) with file sizes listed as ~1kb, and the ubiquitous "index.dat" file. The History and Temporary Internet Files folders have the file types expected there also.

Yep. That is correct. What happens is that, even after cleaning, Windows automatically generates new "default" history files which essentially are either extremely small or blank. This only occurs in the History.IE5 and Content.IE5 folders.

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'Winapp2.ini'

Anything in %localappdata%\temp\ will be cleaned by the Temporary Files check box. Make sure to go into your CCleaner settings and let CCleaner clean temp files younger than 24 hours old.

Not true here. As mentioned above, any files in my username\local\temp directory (or subdirectories) are gone, but any directories (and their subdirectories if any) are not removed. XP/SP3, and Temporary Files is checked and 'Only 24 hours' is not.